Date and time: Wednesday 10 April 2019, 1pm to 2pm Location: W/306, Wentworth College, Campus West, University of York (Map) Audience: Staff Admission: booking not required Event details Interdisciplinary collaborations between scientists/technologists, social scientists and philosophers/theologians have revealed deeply submerged yet powerful narratives at work beneath public discourse on controversial technologies. I consider two examples of collaborations with human geographers, on nanotechnology and GM crops, in detail. Resources for narrative analysis and reflection are, surprisingly, fo ..read more

Date and time: Wednesday 1 May 2019, 10am to 4pm Location: 106x, Piazza Building, Campus East, University of York (Map) Audience: Staff Admission: Free admission, booking required ‘Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.’ Sally Ride - Physicist and Astronaut ‘We're living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.’ Taavet Hinrikus - Entrepreneur ‘Your life is made by the failures in it, not the successes. And I wouldn't have become a writer without failing my doctorate.’ Kate Atkinson - Auth ..read more

Date and time: Tuesday 26 March 2019, 12.30pm to 4pm Location: University of Sheffield (ICOSS), (Map) Admission: Free admission, booking required (see below) Event details The first STS4C mobile seminars in the ‘More than Human?’ series will be held on Tuesday 26th March at ICOSS, University of Sheffield. The event will be in two parts: a network meeting from 12:30-14:00 (with lunch from 12:00) followed by the seminar from 14:00-16:00. The network meeting will provide an opportunity to update each other and discuss community building activities and future events. Semin ..read more

PGR Conference CFP Deadline: (extended) 25 March 2019 Event: Thursday 20 June 2019 Department of Sociology, University of York Keynote Speaker: Dr Steph Lawler, University of York REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ‘Identity’ exists as a key question not only in academic research, but also in our social and personal lives. Who we are and how we came to be continues to be challenged and interrogated on individual and global scales. The importance of research in this field endures not only as a site of academic intrigue, but as political, social and personal phenomena. We welcome abstracts from postgraduat ..read more

‌‌10-19 May 2019 Various locations in York The York Dead Good Festival is a coordinated by the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) and St Leonards Hospice, York during Dying Awareness week 10-19 May 2019. Lots of free public events will be running during the festival ranging from theatrical performances to will writing to thinking about death in science fiction and pet grief. When it comes to conversations about death, it always seems too early until it's too late. As a society, we're not particularly good at talking about these things. The festival aims to encourage people to be more open ab ..read more

28 February 2019 York Medical Society, York 6-8pm Event Information A new edition of a comic exploring how our culture stigmatises larger body sizes is launching in York on 28 February. The Weight of Expectation, or WoE, comic was created in 2018 and tells the story of how stigma associated with bodyweight and size gets under the skin and is felt in the flesh. Now the ‘Next Generation’ edition, designed specifically for young people, is to be launched in a special event at the York Medical Society (23 Stonegate, York YO1 8AW). The Weight of Expectation is the result of a collaboration between ..read more

Existing research overwhelmingly demonstrates that obesity stigma is an ineffective means by which to reduce the incidence of obesity and that it promotes weight-gain. However, the sensate experiences associated with the subjective experience of obesity stigma as a reflexively embodied phenomenon have been largely unexamined. We explore the unhelpfulness of weight-based stigma drawing on ethnographic research with weight-loss groups whose members were predominantly overweight/obese and of low-socio-economic status and investigate what/how obesity stigma made grou ..read more

Thursday 13 June 2019, 9.00am to 5.00pm (CFP Deadline 31 March 2019) DaCNet, based at the University of York, invites papers for the one-day symposium Interdisciplinary Approaches to Corpse Work. In the context of this symposium, we are referring to ‘corpse work’ in its broadest sense: cultural, medical or otherwise. As such, we invite papers on themes including, but not limited to: death technologies the presentation of the corpse in media, cinema, literature, gaming, etc work with the deceased the corpse as waste the value of the corpse agency of the deceased toxicity and necrosis tr ..read more

6 February 2019 W/222 4-5pm FREE (eventbrite ticket) To date the Anthropocene has been an antibiotic epoch, marked by systematic (if patchy) efforts to eradicate, control, and rationalise life. Widespread anxieties about the pathologies of such modern forms of biopower are informing a probiotic turn in the management of human and environmental health. Here formerly taboo lifeforms and process are being reintroduced into our bodies, homes, cities and the wider countryside. The aim being to use life to manage life, securing the circulation of biological and geophysical process to deliver desi ..read more

We are looking forward to being back @UoYSociology on Thursday with some of our supporters and their dogs ready to meet students during their stressful assessment period   ..read more